Author: blass uri
Date: 00:35:51 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 00:19:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 13, 2000 at 23:34:13, Martin Grabriel wrote: > >>I read in the papers that a mechanical engineer by the name of Prayoon >>Ekaworawong beat Deep Blue Jr in 13 minutes with 58 moves in a demonstration >>game at a trade fair in Thailand on 11 Feb 2000 and is quoted to have said that >>his computer opponent (which evaluates 10 million positions a second) did not >>put up a very good fight. >>Anyone heard something like that or have the move list? > > >This 'machine' has been discussed before. It isn't really "deep blue >junior" at all. It is a web-based version of the program that is 'stateless'. >IE no repetition detection, etc. It is set up to search at 1 sec/move, and >serves as a demo machine for IBM all over the world. Hsu estimated that it >was under 2200 in playing strength. Maybe well under 2200. I do not understand what is the reason to use this machine. If this machine is not really deep blue Junior then IBM should not let this machine to play because they could expect that people are going to say that it is deep blue Junior. What does IBM earn from using a weak version of deep blue Junior? If they cannot use the real thing then it is better that they do nothing. Uri
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